The ways in which terrorism and crime are linked has compelled governments to develop strategies to prevent both, particularly at the transnational level. Some of the most effective instruments governments have at their disposal to combat terrorism are their respective law enforcement and criminal justice systems. Many of the methods used by terrorists do not differ significantly from those used by other criminals, even if their basic motivation differs greatly. Law enforcement strategies,...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Koopmann,Vince W, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB, criminal investigations, law...
This thesis asks the following question: how should the Air Force develop joint leaders? To answer that question, the thesis describes the historical, legal, and policy context of jointness and defines attributes of joint leadership; determines the extent to which the Air Force is represented in leadership positions within the joint community; identifies elements of Air Force policy and culture that enhance or detract from the development of joint officers; proposes solutions to enhance joint...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Barnes,Wiley L, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB, air force, leadership,...
General Thomas D. White's path to Chief of Staff of the Air Force was unorthodox. By talent, inclination, and background, White was an intellectual and diplomat at a time when senior leader ranks were dominated by operational expertise. Not until General Larry Welch would the Air Force see as diverse a leader at its helm. Whites worldview broadened Air Force priorities and policies in the early Cold War era and left a Service better able to meet national security objectives in aerospace - a...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Winklepleck,Christopher L, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB United States,...
General Spencers call to managerial arms is certainly one that our Air Force has heard before, but it is more relevant than ever. The service took this advice to heart and attempted to institutionalize Total Quality Management (TQM) in the form of Quality Air Force (QAF) over two decades ago, only to see the program wither and die after extensive effort to make it work. Yet, the necessity to get the job done smarter and more efficiently is compelling, and there should be little argument that...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Briding,A J, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB, military operations, business...
This study comprises an analysis of US strategy and the need to improve global nuclear surety through selective proliferation of nuclear weapons technology and expertise. The author assesses the greatest threat to the US to be an attack from a terrorist organization using a nuclear weapon and the resultant implications such an attack has on globalization. The author concludes the US needs to be prepared to lead global nuclear surety efforts, and these efforts should include the selective...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Terry,Jason B, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB United States, nuclear weapons,...
This study examines the concept of medium bombardment and the role of the Martin B-26 Marauder in World War II (WWII) through the previously under-documented history of the 397th Bombardment Group (BG). It seeks to fulfill two objectives: to tell the story of the 397 BG and to aid understanding of the contributions of a capability that did not fit neatly into previously existing conceptions of airpower. The B-26 occupied a middle ground between the formalized doctrines of attack aviation and...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Och,David, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB, air power, Bomber aircraft, second...
Can the Air National Guard (ANG) go fast, go big, go early, and go smart in a complex catastrophe? In other words, can the ANG respond quickly and efficiently with adequate capacity in a timely manner to save and sustain lives in the face of a humanitarian disaster exponentially larger than Hurricane Katrina? Devastating earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, and Japan illustrated vividly and tragically the human, economic, and social impact of such a catastrophic disaster. Cognizant of the threat...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Hatley,Britt, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB United States, National Guard,...
In the early 1990s, the United States Air Force envisioned the need to change the mission and technological capabilities of its strategic nuclear bomber, the B-1B. The result was transformational. This study uses Stephen P. Rosens theoretical model of military innovation to explain how the B-1 weapon system, one of the United States long-range bombers, transformed into an effective weapon system for irregular war within the context of the Global War on Terror (GWOT). The B-1s transformation was...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Creer,Jonathan, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB United States, air force,...
This thesis discusses terror weapons and interservice rivalry. It describes terrorism, places it in historical perspective, and illustrates that the phenomenon of terrorism that politicians and individual citizens refer to is in fact an act of war covered by the smoke and mirrors of pejorative references and political rhetoric. This is half of the reason for writing. The second purpose is to examine the role of inter-service rivalry for producing technology and innovations. World War II...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Fuerst,Alexander, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB United States, Second World...
This is a thesis about the connection between frontier strategy and international systems of order. It demonstrates how frontier exploitation fueled the rise of prominent state actors. This case demonstrates the relevant role of frontier strategy in the rise of hegemons, highlights the characteristics of three major system environments, and argues that the present system has eliminated the frontier variable from hegemonic competition for the first time in recorded history. The thesis arranges...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Paslay,Jared D, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB United States, political systems,...
This Paper examines E.H. Carr's influence on past and modern international relations study. Carr first problematized the field as the study of power, morality, war, peace, and order. Within those five themes, Carr identified natural forces that caused conflict in international politics. He sought to unify the disparate schools of realism and utopianism and forge a new, peaceful world order. He challenged future international relations theorists to do the same while staying grounded in reality,...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Pittner,David L, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB United States, international...
This study explores the role of ethics in American arms transfer policy to determine whether the Just War traditions jus ad bellum framework can help policymakers through a complex decision-making process. The author analyzes three significant arms transfer cases involving combat aviation assets since 9/11, and identifies the rationale for the approval or denial of each proposed transfer. Next, the author uses the jus ad bellum criteria of competent authority, just cause, right intention,...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Arnett,Rob, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB, ethics, national politics, national...
In 1997, Department of Defense (DOD) Directive 1315.17 directed the military branches to establish Foreign Area Officer (FAO) programs to meet service-specific needs. The Joint Staff updated and enhanced this guidance in 2005, at which time the Air Force committed to the dedicated development of Regional Affairs Strategists (RAS). Although the services received additional direction on how to manage their FAO programs in the 2007 DOD Instruction 1315.20, the DOD did not prescribe a standardized...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Povilus,Michael W, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB, International relations,...
This dissertation examines military intelligence, psychological operations (PSYOP), and the coordination between the two at Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) from 1965 to 1971 in order to determine the extent to which MACV demonstrated the attributes of a learning organization. The analysis is divided into three phases. The first, from 1965-1967, covers the buildup of US forces in Vietnam. The second examines the years 1968-1969, which include the Tet Offensive and the peak of US...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Whiskeyman,Andrew D, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB United States, VIETNAM WAR,...
This study is an analysis of expeditionary air base defense in the post-World War II era, focusing on Western military examples, with the goal of informing current and future leaders within the USAF and larger joint military force. The study begins with a brief overview of the contemporary operational environment and likely future trends in the threats to US expeditionary air bases. A concise comparison of USAF air base defense forces from the 1960s and the 2010s follows, highlighting the...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Petren,Nicholas J, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB, area defense, Perimeters...
This study attempts to address how the Air Force, the only service to have global personnel recovery as one of its core functions, should organize its dedicated forces prior to providing this capability to the joint force. In doing so, it first defines personnel recovery and proceeds with an examination of why this function is critical to national security. Next, the study provides a description of available combat capability and explains how each service approaches its tasked personnel...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Sterr,Chadwick J, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB United States, Search and...
Department of Defense policy states that in order to achieve national security objectives and success in current and future operations, the Military Departments are to develop a cadre of Foreign Area Officers. This cadre is to maintain a knowledge of regional, cultural, linguistic, and political-military affairs in support to the Combatant Commands and other Joint and Interagency organizations. Foreign Area Officers subsequently represent the Department of Defense to foreign governments and...
Topics: DTIC Archive, O'Keefe,Robert III E, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB United States, unified...
This thesis examines the divide between Title 10 and Title 50 from a congressional oversight perspective. Beginning by explaining the origins of modern intelligence committee oversight and the legal framework supporting it the author sets up two case study relationships. The first case study explores the complex relationship between the military's Special Operations Command and the Central Intelligence Agency. The second surveys the developing relationship between the National Security Agency...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Curry,Michael D, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB United States, Congress, federal...
This study investigates the nature of the relative decline of the US and explores the policy implications for US grand strategy. A confluence of internal and external factors including weak economic growth, escalating military costs, and the rise of non-Western states, such as China and India, suggest that the economic costs of maintaining a dominant position in the international order are rising faster than the economic capacity of the United States to support the status quo. Historically,...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Theising,Frank A, SCHOOL OF ADVANCED AIR AND SPACE STUDIES, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL...
This study seeks to examine the relationship between space power and the conduct of irregular warfare. The author begins the examination by exploring key definitions associated with space power and irregular warfare in order to establish a vocabulary for further analysis. Next, the author evaluates satellite communications as they are exploited in irregular warfare activities. The results of this evaluation show that irregular warfare appears to increase demand for satellite communications,...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Burt,Kelly D, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB United States, SPACE DEFENSE,...
This study of population growth attempts to answer some basic questions. Does population growth stress a states demographics enough to increase the risk of conflict? Can good governance either prevent or mitigate such an increased risk? Although the annual rate of world population growth is declining, the United Nations projects world population to reach a staggering 9.6 billion by 2050. In that time, Nigeria is expected to contribute significantly by reaching 440 million and overtake the...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Vesey,Brian P, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB United States, demography, civil...
This thesis studied senior military leadership. It identifies the distinctions between the qualities and skills necessary for successful operational leadership and those required for successful strategic leadership. This study begins with a summary of the existing literature regarding military leadership. Following sections examine the leadership of two operational commanders, Generals George S. Patton, and James Jimmy Doolittle. After identifying the qualities and skills that enabled these...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Howard,Isaac S, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB United States, personnel...
President Barack Obama directed Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT) be replaced with a policy of nondiscrimination based on sexual orientation. While Congress considers repeal, the military is conducting research on how to implement a new policy. Repealing DADT will result in a cognitive desegregation of the military, allowing open or known homosexuals and bisexuals to serve. People differ in their opinions about the morality of homosexual acts and some have concerns about working with open gays,...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Moreau,Melinda K, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB, homosexuality, homophobia,...
Since 1903, airpower has provided a virtually impenetrable three-dimensional wall on the battlefield. As a result of this longstanding success, a significant amount of research, analysis, and scholarly endeavor has been devoted to understanding the strategy and missions accomplished during major combat operations. However, the success of airpower is not as impressive when viewed across the spectrum of military operations. In action described variously as military operations other than war,...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Moeller,David K, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB, military organizations, aerial...
This study argues that if the PRC cannot hope for a massive mobilization of its Southeast Asian diaspora, it has nevertheless the potential to turn a fringe of its diaspora into an effective instrument of power. On a broad scale, it shows that the potential for a massive mobilization of the Chinese diaspora by the PRC is nonexistent because more often than not only the host nations and the PRC see significant economic and stability advantages in the harnessing of its diaspora by the PRC. The...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Brault,Olivier, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB United States, ethnic groups,...
This study evaluates the effectiveness of Colombias Integrated Action approach to counterinsurgency against the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia Ejericito del Pueblo (FARC-EP), primarily from the Colombian perspective. It specifically seeks to answer the following question: How effectively did the government of Colombia integrate the various elements of national power-diplomatic, informational, military, and economic-to attain its political objectives of establishing a stable...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Ramirez,Manuel F, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB United States, insurgency, drug...
In its fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), the United States has developed five lines of effort (LOEs): provide military support to our partners; impede the flow of foreign fighters to ISIS; stop ISISs financing and funding; address humanitarian crises in the region; and expose ISISs true nature. A much addressed question in the media as well as scholarly analyses is whether these LOEs will be effective in defeating the ISIS insurgency in Iraq, or whether the United...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Holaday,Joshua B, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB United States, civil war,...
The fleet of pursuit aircraft the US Army Air Forces employed in Operation TORCH and the North African campaign was outmatched, and, much of the time, outnumbered. Air commanders asked pursuit pilots to use their aircraft in roles they were not designed to fulfill against more experienced opponents while executing the combined Anglo-American strategy. This study details the decisions and influences that determined the fleet of pursuit aircraft available to the Americans when they landed in...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Azar,Maurice, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB United States, ACQUISITION, fighter...
This study comprises an analysis of the 2003 US led Iraq invasion from a civil-military relations perspective. It argues that many of the problems the United States encountered after early successes in Iraq stemmed from a dysfunctional interaction between civilian and military leaders. In particular, US failures in the aftermath of the 2003 invasion were largely due to the Bush administrations inability to comprehend the value of dissenting ideas and opposing views of thought emanating from...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Holtzclaw,Damion, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB, iraqiwar, national security,...
This study analyzes the changes in United States security assistance to Taiwan from 1990 to 2016. The author evaluates congressional notifications of major arms sales to Taiwan in terms of their impact on US-Peoples Republic of China (PRC) relations and on Taiwans defensive capabilities. These two variables correlate directly to United States China policy goals, which strive to balance positive relations with the PRC with preventing unilateral changes to the status quo across the Taiwan Strait....
Topics: DTIC Archive, Ogrosky,Christian, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB United States, united states...
This study comprises an analysis of why independent air forces in democratic nations maintain a focus on the independent aspects of air power, rather than embracing jointness. The author describes how the civil-military relations within a democratic culture enable an independent air force to choose to what degree they comply with government direction and policy in particular, the government's policy and direction on the priority to be given to supporting joint operations. Next, the author...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Edgeley,Stephen, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB United States, air force,...
This study examines the moral, ethical, and legal issues surrounding the development of autonomous systems capable of employing lethal force. It explores the international law principles that will inform questions concerning the legality of these systems along with the moral and ethical arguments both for and against these systems. It then assesses the implications of the current approaches for developing an ethical reasoning capability for a machine along with the necessity of establishing...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Domsalla,Matthew R, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB United States, AUTONOMOUS...
This study addresses the challenge of basing air refueling forces in regions marked by scarcities of appropriate airfields and powerful anti-access/area-denial(A2/AD) threats from regional enemies. In such conflicts, the scale of required tanker deployments likely will overwhelm the number of first-class airfields available to accommodate the airliner-based air refueling aircraft in the United States Air Force fleet. Moreover, tankers based in forward areas will be subject to a wide range of...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Owen,Robert C, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB, area denial, refueling in flight,...
With the resurgence of Russia, the rise of China, and the proliferation of nuclear weapons to regional powers such as North Korea, the post-Cold War geo-political environment characterized by U.S. hegemony is fading away. In the emerging, multipolar environment, the likelihood of engaging in an escalating conventional conflict with a nuclear-armed opponent is increasing. The assumptions and theories that guided U.S. military successes in the Cold War, and the post-Cold War era no longer have...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Goossen,Paul A, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB, military doctrine, governments,...
This study examines the leadership traits of four American insurgent leaders. Those leaders were Francis Marion and Thomas Sumter from the American Revolutionary War and Nathan Bedford Forrest and John Singleton Mosby from the American Civil War. Marion and Sumter's operations were successful in occupying large numbers of British forces, thus enabling General Nathanael Greene to win a campaign of resistance against the British. Forrest and Mosby constantly threatened Union lines of...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Reid,Ryan L, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB United States, Civil war (United...
For over a decade, the USAF has been looking for follow-on platforms to replace and transform the current airborne Command and Control, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C2ISR) force. The USAF has studied the feasibility of using space-based radar (SBR) platforms as well as large manned aircraft like the E-10A to meet USAF C2 and ISR operational requirements. Neither of these platforms met operational requirements and has forced the USAF to continue relying on aging AWACS and...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Gillis,Kouji P, SCHOOL OF ADVANCED AIR AND SPACE STUDIES, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL...
This study proceeds in two parts. The first section is a theoretical and historical review of the role of logistics-enabled military presence as a part of coercive strategies. Operation NICKEL GRASSthe United States logistical support to Israel during the Yom Kippur Wardemonstrates how even permanently based forces may fail to deter aggression, while showing the successes and challenges of one of the first modern aerial logistics efforts. The deployment of United States forces as a part of...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Byrum,Steven S, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB United States, airlift...
This thesis examines the military career of Major General Benjamin Foulois in order to determine how his personal qualities and professional skill enabled him rapidly to build up and lead the air arm of the American Expeditionary Forces to victory in World War I. While previous academic works have focused on Foulois early aviation career from 1909 to 1916 and his tenure as Chief of the Air Corps from 1931 to 1935, no treatment exists that details the vital role he played in the development of...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Schrader,Karl R, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB United States, First World War,...
This study examines the career of General Thomas Sarsfield Power, third Commander-in-Chief of Strategic Air Command, and especially his forgotten contributions to the early Air Force space program. The author describes the modern search for an Alfred Thayer Mahan for space, or a space war-fighting icon for the Air Force. The study identifies three major contributions to the Air Force space program Power had, using I.B. Holleys three step organizational model to develop superior weapons from new...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Ziarnick,Brent D, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB United States, air force,...
In Richard J. Overy's air power history The Air War, 1939-1945, he makes an unexpected claim for the way in which the Allies won air superiority over the Axis powers in the Mediterranean in the Second World War. Unlike the traditional analyses, which often stress the quality and quantity of aircraft and airmen as the determining arbiters of air superiority, Overy claims that air superiority was achieved through the employment of radar and intelligence. By means of a historical analysis of the...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Roy,Francois II H, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB United States, second world...
Despite the efforts of the Goldwaters Nichols Act of 1986, jointness continues to be a problem in the Department of Defense. Scholars point to both organizational and cultural problems as the root of the problem, but these explanations are incomplete. People comprise organization and people use culture as means of to explain identity, norms, and behavior. The individual level of analysis emerges as another explanation to the problem of jointness in order to complement the other two. In order to...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Yates,Donn C, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB United States, Joint military...
This thesis analyzes the air wars waged by the Thirteenth Air Force in the Pacific and the Fifteenth Air Force in Europe during World War II while under the successive command of Maj Gen Nathan F. Twining. By using General Twining as a common denominator to study these two theaters, the author assesses how the United States Army Air Forces, as well as air leaders like Twining, responded to an air war in one theater that was fairly well anticipated and consistent with pre-war airpower doctrine,...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Stratton,John C, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB, air power, combat operations,...
Carl von Clausewitz wrote, War is merely a continuation of policy by other means ... The political object is the goal, war is a means of reaching it, and means can never be considered in isolation from their purpose. Most academics, military strategists, and leaders understand this to mean using war to coerce adversary states. Rarely do strategists interpret the passage to mean gaining domestic influence or political clout. This study examines the context of the 2002 Iraq war debate through...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Sumangil,Jose E, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB United States, national...
This thesis proposes a non-linear approach to strategic innovation and argues that innovation in this construct depends most upon perceiving the interaction of friendly, enemy, and third-party strategies. The author evaluates whether the military has the appropriate mechanisms to innovate strategy during long wars. Rather than to disprove existing theories of innovation that seek linear cause-and-effect relationships, this thesis incorporates them into a broader construct of innovation through...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Vlaun,Brian, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB United States, second world war,...
Though Pres. Barack Obama and the Air Force Space Commands (AFSPC) top general officers have advocated for the use of commercially hosted military payloads (CHMP), only one CHMP contract has been awarded by the Air Force. This paper answers the question, how can AFSPC and the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) increase the number of CHMP contract awards? Using a problem/solution framework, I examine the acquisition cultural and policy challenges that impede CHMP solutions and choose a...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Cunningham,Peter A, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB, contractors, corporations,...
The Air Force continues to transition to an enhanced capability for remote war, driving the operator farther and farther from the battlefield, thereby greatly reducing exposure to physical danger. Concurrently, this movement to remote applications of force also affects the perception of who is a warrior, both within the Air Force and among sister services who continue to face danger on the battlefield. Unlike the sister services, particularly the Army and the Marines, in which a majority of the...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Hoffman,Scott, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB United States, Perception...
Major General Oliver P. Echols was the most important man in the mobilization and production of aircraft during WWII. His efforts led to a 4,476% increase in total poundage of aircraft produced between 1940 and 1944. He turned the latent potential of the US economy into the lethal and decisive weapon of war it became. Despite this, no one has published a book about him and few airmen even know his name, let alone what he did. His story, and the story of many great leaders that made their mark...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Freeman,Michael A, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB, second world war, aircraft...
A central Service responsibility of the U.S. Air Force is to identify and prepare Airmen for senior leadership. As of this writing, Air Force general officers hold four of the 10 functional and geographic combatant commander billets
Topics: DTIC Archive, Mack,Russell L, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB United States, leadership,...
This thesis analyzes the origins of World War I and todays US-China relationship within a worldview consisting of four factors that increase the risk of great power war. Prior to World War I, four signposts were prevalent a hegemonic challenger, a power imbalance, a series of repeated crises, and entangling alliances. These signposts made great power war more likely during the 1914 July Crisis. Nuclear weapons, a different international order, and geography are clear differences in this...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Kennedy,Patrick J, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB United States, china, first...
In 1959, Major General George Olmsted (USA, ret) founded the Olmsted Scholar Program. Olmsteds goal was to create a cadre of warrior-statesmen who were equipped, through cultural immersion, with language and cultural skills and a uniquely broad perspective. As the underwriter of the current world order, the United States faces an engagement imperative, one which requires its military to engage with partners and adversaries alike. In view of this, the Thesis examines the strategic value of the...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Walsh,Thomas A, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB United States, military research,...
